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Africa eyes joint space agency
by Staff Writers
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 4, 2012

African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent’s communications and IT ministers.

The agency, to be called AfriSpace, would enable “cooperation among African states in space research and technology and their space applications,” says a working document issued for the conference. . . . [Full Story]